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Nancy Avritt: Pics

my own back yard (click on photos to enlarge)

Florida's State Bird, the Mockingbird
Orange sky pelicans. This is natural light; I didn't edit the color!
This is a shorebird called a willet. He is strolling along Navarre Beach, Florida.
This little sandpiper was hard to photograph. He kept running away, but I finally got close enough for this pic!
Osprey (aka Fish Hawk) with a fish he just caught in the bay.
Rare Perigee Moon. Full Moons vary in size because of the oval shape of the Moon's orbit. It is an ellipse with one side (perigee) about 50,000 km closer to Earth than the other (apogee) This photo was taken just before 6am March 20, 2011.
This little box turtle can really move, but he was willing to pause for the paparazzi!
Autumn Butterfly, known as a Gulf Fritillary.
Monarch butterflies. Notice the subtle difference between them and the Gulf Fritillary.
every now and then the subject and the sunlight combine for a photographer's delight (even if you don't like spiders)
scary sky
An osprey likes to perch on the dead oak tree on an empty lot next to ours. The Osprey and Owls are the only raptors whose outer toe is reversible, allowing them to grasp their prey with two toes in front and two behind...great for catching slippery fish!
An afternoon rainstorm across the Bay
the once-endangered Brown Pelican is now thriving in northwest Florida
Pelicans at dusk
Florida Red-Cockaded Woodpecker, an endangered species
Heron's Flight: Great blue heron steals a mullet from my friend John, the fisherman
Only a few miles from the sugar-sand beaches of Pensacola are some very interesting swamps....forgotten Florida!
summer flowers
Florida's sugar sand beaches
Juvenile Green Heron
Sometimes my music just puts her to sleep. . .
My husband loves his plumerias, which he started from an unlikely-looking cutting he purchased at the airport in Hawaii. He moves them to the greenhouse every winter and puts them on display on the patio during the other months. Also called Frangipani.
These are actually called Laughing Gulls. That's their distinctive call.
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